| Match Pictures | Matches: 1955 – 1956 | 1955-56 pictures |
Trivia
- Between the Glasgow Cup Celtic – Rangers game and the Ne'erday game between the sides there was this little matter of an away game on New Year's Eve away at Dumfries.
- Frank Whyte's last first team game.
- Jock Stein was out having picked up an injury in the Glasgow Cup game against rangers on Boxing Day; this meant Bobby Evans going to centre half and Frank Whyte coming in at right half; Jimmy Walsh was restored to the right wing.
- Many Celtic buses failed to travel to Dumfries for the away game, with many Celtic supporters deciding to be close to home for Hogmanay.
- The Celtic players wore black armbands in memory of Tommy McInally who died on 29th December and was buried at Barrhead on the day of the game.
- Celtic signed John Donnelly on provisional forms from Armadale Thistle.
Review
Queens played well inn the first half and deservedly got the opener. In the last minute of the first half Rothera, the veteran playmaker of the Dumfries side who had only just been declared fit to play, collapsed holding his back. He started the second half but was very much the passenger. Mochan duly equalised. Five minutes later Jim Sharkey scored another superb goal from a Jimmy Walsh cross. After another five minutes Bobby Collins added a third. Queen of the South pretty much gave up p[laying after Rothera's injury.
Teams
Queen of the South:
Henderson; Sharpe, Binning; Sweeney, Smith, Whitehead; Black, McGill, Patterson, Rothera, McGuire.
Scorers: Patterson (43)
Celtic:
Beattie; Haughney, Fallon; Whyte, Evans, Peacock; Walsh, Fernie, Sharkey, Collins, Mochan.
Scorers: Mochan (50), Sharkey (55), Collins (60)
Referee: H Spence (Kilmarnock)
Attendance: 12,500
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)